Correspondence XVI

Memorandum Date: July 20 From: (?) To: (?) Content: "Cong. Walters Speech - He is no good -- But he is a ____ but he looks for headlines." Handwritten on United States Senant stationary.

Two letters stapled together: 1. Date: September 9, 1955 From: Edgar C. Bundy To: Mr. Dick O'Melia Content: "Enclosed please find our check for $100.00 to help pay for the cost of reproducing Congressman Reece's speech on the Ford Foundation." "rec'd 9-13 and sent to Brodie by Bugeye." 2. Date: September 13, 1955 From: (?) To: Mr. Edgar C. Bundy Content: "Dick O'Melia has contacted me and we are placing an order for additional copies of the speech on the Ford Fund for the Republic."

Protest Date: (?) From: Lary W. Davis To: Senator John J. McCellan Content: "I, the undersigned, a tenant of the Success Park-Canaan Village Project, Bridgeport and Stratford, Connecticut, do hereby, protest the injury suffered by reason of the mishandling of the sale of these public lands and buildings by an agency of the Executive Branch of our government and by the infringements of The Success Village Apartments, Inc., both to the prejudice of the rights and interests, and of the preference accorded me by the Legislative Branch of our Government."

Protest Date: (?) From: Mr. Herman (?) To: Senator John J. McCellan Content: "I, the undersigned, a tenant of the Success Park-Canaan Village Project, Bridgeport and Stratford, Connecticut, do hereby, protest the injury suffered by reason of the mishandling of the sale of these public lands and buildings by an agency of the Executive Branch of our government and by the infringements of The Success Village Apartments, Inc., both to the prejudice of the rights and interests, and of the preference accorded me by the Legislative Branch of our Government."

Memo Date: October 2, 1952 From: (?) To: Richard J. O'Melia Content: "The above mentioned people have now agreed that the Senator should speak in Eastern Connecticut and this plan is proposed by the Eastern Connecticut Association." Two copies.

Letter Date: October 27, 1954 From: Frances Mims To: Mrs. Driscoll Content: "The following is the pertinent portion of the Bruce Jolly newspaper article appearing in the Greensboro (NC) Daily News of Wednesday, August 4, 1954 relating to Judge Ervin:"

Memorandum Date: March 2, 1953 From: Walter L. Reynolds To: Joseph R. McCarthy Content: "Although I have been unable to locate the five major speech drafts I prepared as Director of the American Division of the Republican National Committee during the 1940 campaign, I have located the attached working sheets which contain the basic information from which these speeches were written." No attachments.

Personal Date: February 22, 1957 From: Maurie G. Olson To: Richard J. O'Melia Content: "I received a nice letter from Senator Jenner concerning Milton Brown of South Bend, whom we discussed when I was in Washington. I appreciate your efforts very much."

Letter Date: April 25, 1954 From: Three members of the National Committee, Communist Party, USA To: Friend Content: "Our country stands at the crossroads. One path leads to economic catastrophe, fascism and world war; the other leads to jobs, democracy and peace."

Letter Date: January 13, 1956 From: Ernest S. Griffith To: Joseph R. McCarthy Content: " In response to your request of November 14, 1955, for a list of all individuals appearing before the Fish Committee, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations who have been cited for contempt of Congress, together with the final disposition of each case, we submit the attached report." {11 PP attached}

Letter Date: July 9, 1954 From: Tench Tilghman To: Spessard L. Holland Content: "The Department of the Army has referred to the Department of Justice certain matters concerning Contract No. QM-61189 and others with Richmond Packers. Because of the possible existence of a substantial claim against Richmond Packers arising out of other contracts for which the Army had made full payment, funds which were otherwise due under Contract QM-61189 were withheld."

Letter Date: November 12, 1957 From: J. Edgar Hoover To: Francis E. Walter Content: "The booklet [Operation Abolition] depicts another example of the apparent ease with which the communists have been able to enlist the support of misguided individuals to assist in obscuring their subversive workings. Certainly the real meaning of civil liberties is not understood by these communist apologists."

Letter Date: December 3, 1954 From: Paul J. Cotter To: Senator Ferguson, Senator George Content: "As I read Chapter XIII of the Post Office Manual, it might appear that you have been furnished with a section of this chapter which is not applicable to the case in point, rather than Section 3, a copy of which I am attaching." {No attachment.}

Letter Date: October 26, 1956 From: Lee R. Pennington To: Richard O'Melia Content: "With reference to the proposed study contained in your memorandum of October 15, 1956, I think to dig into the 'judicial' aspects of all Fifth Amendment cases and the others listed in your memorandum would do an outstanding service to those of us engaged in counter-subversive work." Included are letters of support and two copies of a "Proposed subject matter for a new Senate Document."

Letter Date: October 25, 1952 From: Chris E. Mullen, J. E. Murphy, and Paul Geenen To: Joseph R. McCarthy Content: "Please accept the enclosed with our compliments. We wish to show you in a small way our appreciation of the magnificent work you are doing in ridding our country of communists and traitors."

Memorandum Date: March 31, 1955 From: Richard J. O'Melia To: Phillip Bowker Content: "It would be very much appreciated if your Commission could furnish us two copies of the report you plan to issue prior to May 31st, when it becomes available."

Letter Date: March 21, 1955 From: William J. Haese To: Richard. O'Melia Content: "I certainly appreciate the receipt of the Army Court Martial Manual. It has proved to be of extreme value in our Legion Program." Attached is an acknowledgment letter.

Letters Date: March 8, 1955; March 21, 1955; March 28, 1955 From: Richard J. O'Melia and Jacob K. Javits To: Richard J. O'Melia and Jacob K. Javits Content: Letters requesting, sending, and receiving copies of the Rapp-Coudert hearings on education which were held in New York.

Letter Date: February 25, 1955 From: Richard J. O'Melia To: Edmund G. Brown Contents: "Thank you very much for your letter informing me that you have redirected my request of February 15th to the California Un-American Activities Committee." Two copies.

Letter Date: February 18, 1955 From: Latham Castle To: Richard J. O'Melia Content: "Under the law of Illinois my office is not an investigative agency and therefore I have no information with which I can supply you."

Letters Date: April 7, 1955 From: Richard J. O'Melia To: Ferdinand Sybert, Anthony Julian, Frank F. Truscott, Grover C. Richmond, Don Eastbold, Thomas Cavanaugh, and John Bracken Content: "We are interested in compiling a library of all investigations which have been made in your state into Communist infiltration. Any information or assistance you could give us as to obtaining copies of hearings, reports, etc., would be very much appreciated." Additional letter addressed to Massachusetts Commission on Communism, including same information, dated June 16, 1955.

Memo Date: January 24, 1955 From: Richard J. O'Melia To: Pete Frigo Content: "In all the confusion of the committee changeover, etc., I have just discovered that I never wrote to thank you for the cheese you sent at Christmas."

Memorandum Date: October 18, 1954 - 4:30 P.M. From: Richard J. O'Melia To: James N. Juliana Content: "Mr. Jeffrey contracted me last week and informed me that he had been called on the telephone by a Mr. Joseph Crane who represented himself as being from the Russian Embassy. Mr. Crane asked Mr. Jeffrey if he would be interested in a position with Amtorg Corporation. An appointment was made for today, October 18th, at 11:30 A.M., at the Russian Embassy." Written on side: "This info furnished orally to Dale DeLoocky of FBI 4:15 P.M. Oct 20, 1954 by FPC and JAJ.

Memo Date: November 11, 1954 From: JB To: Joseph R. McCarthy Content: "On page 88 of my manuscript I said that 24 of the 39 members of the board of advisors of the National Committee for an Effective Congress have had records of affiliation with Communist fronts and Communist enterprises ."

Memorandum Date: January 6, 1954 From: C. George Anastos To: Francis P. Carr Content: "This date Mr. Wade Waldron (former newspaperman with the Hearst papers and now in the Television business with Wade Waldron and Producers, Inc., located at the Shoream Building, Washington, D.C. Telephone District 7-5558; home telephone King 8-3599) was interviewed and gave the following information."

Personal Date: September 14, 1954 From: Frank J. Tracy To: Mr. Richard J. O'Melia Content: "My boss is currently on a business trip through the East and expects to be in Washington this week of September 20. As you know, Mr. Scanlan has long been a backer of Senator McCarthy, having admired him and his work from afar these past several years."

Letter Date: August 23, 1954 From: A. D. Sutherland To: Richard O'Melia Content: "I am anxious to go over the Joint Stock Land Bank problem with you. Could you arrange to stop here on your way back to Washington or would you rather I come up and see you?"

Personal Letter Date: June 3, 1955 From: M. Barry To: Senator McCarthy Content: "William C. McCabe of our parish is trying to get the contract to operate the Senate Dinning Room. I understand you are a member of the Rules Committee; and that you have a vote in the matter of operating the Dinning Room."

Translation Date: December 7, 1934 From: Reinke To: Mr. Werner Schoknecht Content: "In order to maintain public safety and orders, in accordance with Par. 1 of the Regulation of the Reichspresident for the Protection of the People and the Nation, dated 28, 1933, the appearance of the periodical publication 'We War-Volunteers of 1914/15' is forbidden until further notice."

Translation Date: December 15, 1953 From: Werner Schoknecht To: Mr. Earl J. Carroll Content: "I saw in the paper 'Sueddeutsche Zeitung' that you have compiled a list of 125 American Communists who in the name of American democracy set up an unprecedented dictatorship in Germany after armistice day. You would deserve all merits if you would show to the American nation by means of a practical example how easily a red dictatorship can form under the cover of seemingly democratic forms."

Translation Date: December 21, 1953 From: Werner Schoknecht To: Miss Secretary Content: "Thank you very much for your letter of the 19th and for the trouble I have most probably caused you with translating my letters. In High School we used to learn Latin and Greek but not English, otherwise I might have had an opportunity to inform born Americans already in the past. "

Letter Date: (?) From: Eustace Mullins To: Don Surine Content: "Several points relevant to the defection of Dr. John to the Communists have not been sufficiently emphasized, and I do feel that they are of great importance in the Senator's criticism of Allen Dulles. First of all, John was involved in the July, 1944 plot against Hitler, and Allen Dulles, in his book, "Germany's Underground" Macmillan, 1947, takes credit for organizing this plot."

Letter Date: December 27, 1953 From: Werner Schoknecht To: Mr. Earl J. Carroll Content: "On December 21st I sent you an article from the London Times of 2.23.1934 describing my public resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. At the same time I sent you a fotocopy of the prohibition of my periodical by the Gestapo, dated 7.12.34."

Statement Date: (?) From: Joe McCarthy To: Senator Karl E. Mundt Content: "We are submitting herewith what we consider to be pertinent data concerning the attempt by two Army civilians, Mr. Robert T. Stevens and Mr. John G. Adams, to discredit the Investigations Subcommittee, and to force a discontinuance of our hearings exposing Communist infiltration in their department." Attached are memos from the American Law Division of the Library of Congress and a letter from Kathryn Kohler to Mr. Fortney Stark.

Letter Date: January 12, 1957 From: Reynaldo Gubbins To: Senator Langer Content: "Senator Ralph E. Flanders has informed me that he is willing to co-sponser my bill with another senator of the Committee on the Judiciary."

Memo Date: (?) From: (?) To: O'Melia and Schweinler Content: "Morning of October 15th, Mr. Bazil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., publisher of newspaper there and on Cape Cod...says he's pretty well acquainted with McCarthy (in the Marines together) Was Mass. Taft manager."

Letter Date: (?) From: Dr. Jeuo To: Joseph McCarthy Content: "by Your kind permission I enclose the copy of my letter written to the honorable Mr. Kersten on the occasion of his noble action for the sake of liberation of Hungary having submitted a concurrent resolution in the House of Representatives."

Memorandum Date: (?) From: Pat Gorman To: (?) Content: "The President of the Council for Economic and Industrial Research, Inc., is Herbert William Robinson [, a mbr of the ADA.]"

Letter Date: (?) From: (?) To: Charles Kersten Content: "On the occasion of Your noble action to intervene on behalf of Hungary to liberate her from the Bolshevik subjugation having submitted a concurrent resolution in this case in the House of Representatives, please, accept my best thanks."

Memorandum: Date: August 2, 1954 From: William C. Warren To: Robert Nathan; Dr. Herbert Robinson Content: "The Council for Economic and Industry Research, Inc., has a highly classified contract with the Air Force. The following are the details in the Air Force letter given in confidence to the Senator Appropriations Committee."

Memorandum Date: August 4, 1956 From: Miles Scull, Jr. To: All members of the Senate Content: "In the belief that it may be helpful in handling inquiries concerning Congressional action on the Hoover Commission Reports, the following is respectfully submitted for your information:"

Memorandum Date: January 26, 1954 From: Sirdar J. J. Singh To: (?) Content: "Objective - It is agreed that in view of the aggressive intent of world Communism, the United States must adopt the policy of 'speak softly, but carry a big stick.'"

Memorandum Date: January 10, 1957 From: Miles Scull, Jr. To: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Content: "The spurious allegation in the above publication accusing Senator McCarthy of attempting to 'liquidate the Rural Electrification Administration and eventually destroy the Nation's rural electric cooperatives' is without foundation of fact."

Memo Date: January 22, 1957 From: the Office of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy To: (?) Content: "The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy plans to hold public hearings beginning on Tuesday, February 19 to receive testimony from representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission, industry and other interested individuals and organizations on the development, growth and state of the atomic energy industry, it was announced today by Representative Carl T. Durham, Chairman of the Committee."

Memorandum Date: (?) From: (?) To: (?) Content: "Msgr. Barry called Dick. Dick was at lunch. Emily called Dick and told him of the call."

Personal Letter |Translated from Russian Date: New York, November 23, 1930 From: M. Heudler, 2065 Morris Av. Bronx To: Honourable Hamilton Fish, Jr. Chairman of the Congression[sic] Committee Content: “Under the oath I can testify to the following: Early in 1922, I was sent to Greece, to organize by the order of O.G.P.U. a net of military and Political Espionage. On my way back to Russia, I stopped in Sophia, where in the hotel “Bulgaria,” I met some comrades from Moscow. Although officially they constitute Soviet Red Cross Mission in Bulgaria, in fact they were working under the orders of Military Espionage Division of the Red Army and of Foreign Division of OGPU.” Key names/terms: Kozeshroff, Pokrousky, Trillisser, Menjinsky, Mikhail